How to Make Spiced Coffee

Add This Ingredient to Your Coffee Pot For a Sweeter Sip

Here's an easy way to spice up your morning coffee routine: add a generous pinch of cardamom to the grounds for a sweeter-tasting sip, no sugar needed. This highly aromatic spice is a traditional addition to Arabic coffee (particularly in Turkey and Saudi Arabia), as it adds a subtle warmth of flavor and rounds out the coffee beans' harsh, bitter edge. It's up to you whether you add sugar, cream, or milk to your mug, but don't mess with one constant: make sure to add the cardamom to the coffee grounds rather than a mug of brewed coffee so as to avoid adding gritty texture. Ground cinnamon can be added to coffee using the same method for a different, but similar, spin.

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40 weeks

Brown sugar or white sugar? Where's your racism rant today?

40 weeks

Add a bucket of sugar. That will do the trick also.

44 weeks

Can't wait to try this on the next pot, I use cinnamon a lot, I just never thought about with coffee.

4 years

I have added cinnamon to my coffee before I brew it but since cinnamon doesn't readily absorb into liquid sometimes my filter overflows and leaves me with grounds in my coffee. I've tried adding it to the side, the bottom, in the middle and I still have the same problem. Am I adding too much cinnamon?

I was shown this trick at work when I switched departments about a year ago and have been doing it at home ever since. For people who like and buy cinnamon flavored creamers--this is so much better tasting and waaayyy cheaper. I never realized so many others were doing it too, it's a great idea. If you haven't tried it yet--go for it!

This is what people did historically to cut coffee and make it more cheaply (see: chicory in New Orleans). If you really want more flavorful coffee, simply use better coffee instead of turning it into a dessert topping.

I always do this, I never knew anybody else did! Thought I thought of it myself, Lol. I also use pumpkin pie spice and various extracts instead of cinnamon, for variety. I have tried vanilla, rum, mint and almond extract and they were all good.